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"How do you expect me to swallow that bitter pill of reconciliation when I see people who killed these two brothers of mine walking freely on the streets of Kigali?" Claire Uwineza told Reuters.
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The cowardice, complete and total failure, monumental absconding of responsibility to OHA and our innocent dead (which number in the millions) of Igbo Leadership and Intelligentsia, especially Igbo Intelligentsia in Diaspora, continue to be highlighted, each time the genocide and holocaust committed against other nations in the world is mentioned. What an abominable group of cowards who have no qualms about interacting with those who committed these crimes against humanity and war crimes (for example: Obasanjo, IBB, the Northern Emirs, etc, just to name a few).
The Igbo/Biafran genocide and holocaust is the only crime against humanity that the world as yet have no inkling about, especially since Igbo Intelligentsia can be found in ever corridor of power around the world (be it in the UN, USA, …), even more than 30 years since these crimes were committed – TUFIAKWA, what a bunch of cowards, our fore-parents must be turning in their graves!
May Ndi Igbo find no rest until these crimes against our brethren are addressed – ISEEEE!
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CNN.com
Rwandan leader to critics: 'You kept quiet' during genocide Ceremony to bury remains marks 12th anniversary of genocide Friday, April 7, 2006; Posted: 1:37 p.m. EDT (17:37 GMT)
KIGALI, Rwanda (Reuters) -- Rwanda's president denounced on Friday critics who accuse him of using the 1994 genocide as an excuse for autocratic leadership, saying their inaction in the face of the slaughter gave them no right to condemn. President Paul Kagame spoke at a ceremony to mark the 12th anniversary of the genocide, at which more than 100 victims were exhumed from the mass graves where their ravaged bodies were cast, to be re-buried at proper memorial sites. "You kept quiet ... when these victims wanted your help to survive the slaughter," Kagame told a crowd of thousands gathered in the southern Nyamasheke district. "Now you begin criticizing us when we are struggling to sort out this mess caused by divisionism and sectarianism -- your unfounded criticism is not welcome," Kagame, a Tutsi, said in a speech broadcast on state television. Critics say Kagame has clamped down harshly on political dissenters in the name of stopping divisiveness -- which he says was a cause of genocide in which 800,000 Tutsis and their Hutu sympathisers were hacked, burned and shot to death. In Nyamasheke and the capital Kigali, decomposed skulls and other body parts gathered from mass graves hidden in valleys, hilltop jungles and pit latrines were placed into wooden coffins and buried in concrete crypts. Up to 45,000 bodies are believed buried in the former stronghold of Hutu militias who carried out the killings. Survivors' stories draw tears Survivors -- including one who hid under a pile of bodies for days and survived by drinking blood oozing from the dead and his own machete wounds -- recounted their ordeals and moved many in the crowd to tears. The ceremonies are the beginning of a week of mourning during which bars and nightclubs will be closed, flags will fly at half-staff and radio and TV will broadcast remembrances. Kagame led a Tutsi-dominated rebel army across the small central African country in 1994 to stop the killing, overthrowing the Hutu-led government behind the slaughter. Human rights groups accused some of his soldiers of carrying out atrocities of their own in reprisal. In Kigali, a survivor who had come to bury remains of her two brothers said she saw no chance for peace between the Hutu and Tutsi survivors because some 54,000 culprits have been pardoned and released from prison. "How do you expect me to swallow that bitter pill of reconciliation when I see people who killed these two brothers of mine walking freely on the streets of Kigali?" Claire Uwineza told Reuters.
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Agreed, we have a bunch of them in diaspora very very intelligent,and what i won't take away from them, is, that, they know how to write, with good command of english language thats it. Free UWAZURUIKE God we come down from heaven and do that, they kill unarmed massobians God please help us, they kill innocents igbos in the north and some of the igbos that retaliated might be languishing in prison we are waiting for God intervention. I am not a pacifist, except if my neighbor is, but if my neighbor's hands are always on his or her trigger then i will likewise do the same because i don't wanna be caught unaware. The bible says the dead don't praise God only the living. All i am telling the igbos in nigeria don't wait for the igbos in diaspora to help you,the help might come from them while you are in the grave and it won't do you all no good we have a bunch of clowns over here that knows how to preach to the dead.
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How can Ndi Igbo say, “NEVER AGAIN”, when they do not have the backbone or guts to go after those that committed GENOCAUST (genocide and holocaust) against the Igbo?
Until Igbo Diaspora does what they should have done years ago, instead of wining and dinning with these criminals, an abomination, it will continue to be open session on IGBO!
To the Igbo intelligentsia in Diaspora we ask, where is the Igbo Genocaust story? When will the world know what happened? When will our fore-parents be appeased? When will the cry of our innocent dead, who number in the millions, reach their ears? When will they finally do the right thing by OHA?
TUFIAKWA!!!!
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BBC Friday, 7 April 2006, 08:17 GMT 09:17 UK
Genocide survivor can't forgive Odette Mupenzi is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide in which an estimated 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed. Now in the UK and awaiting reconstructive surgery, she tells the BBC on the 12th anniversary of the start of the killings that she is not willing to forgive and forget the people who murdered her family and shattered her mouth and jaw. “Before the genocide, I was a 17-year-old student and my dream was to become a medical doctor. In 1994, the night President Juvenal Habyarimana was killed in a plane crash, my family took refuge in a religious seminary. I was busy making tea in the kitchen when I heard a lot of noise and when I went out I saw this girl who had been stabbed in the stomach. That's when we thought that things were really getting serious. There were many Interahamwe, men who had been trained to kill the Tutsis, outside the gate of the seminary, so we ran to the classrooms to hide under mattresses. The next thing we knew they were inside the grounds and they came to where we were. They were making a lot of noise screaming things like, "How many 'Inyenzi' (cockroaches) are in this school?" They referred to Tutsis as cockroaches. "Does the government know there are so many inyenzi here?" We begged and cried and screamed that we were not cockroaches. They said, "Yes you are, and it's you that killed our president." There were very, very many - there were three military men and the rest of the group were Interahamwe. They asked us to open the door and my father, who was the only man in the room, went to open the door. They hacked him straight away. Fainted In reaction to seeing my father hacked to death, I moved from under the mattress. As I came out I felt something weird inside me and then when I looked around I realised that the military man was shooting. I saw blood on me so that's how I knew I had been shot. I was shot on the face, on the shoulder - the whole of the right side. After I was shot the military man told the Interahamwe to get in and look for the "cockroaches" that were still breathing, so they would finish them off. So one of them came to me and touched me where I had been shot and after that I fainted. I don't know what happened next. Later on I woke up. In the years since the genocide, I have been very sick and constantly in pain. I live on pain killers - I'm always on medication. I can't forgive the people that did this to me. It is impossible. Maybe one can forgive somebody who has asked for forgiveness, but they've never come to me to ask for forgiveness. Surgery It still feels like yesterday that it happened. It's very close, very recent and I never think of it as something that happened a long time ago. The wounds that are inside me will, I guess, always be there. I am in the UK to have reconstruction surgery on my face - maybe it's going to be different after that. Maybe I will feel better when my face is redone. But I think we will always be haunted from the inside because we can't have back all the people we lost, my family, my friends, neighbours. We won't forget them and they won't be resurrected. I don't think much about my ambitions any more. I don't have many dreams. I used to dream but I never got to achieve any of the things I had wanted to. It's not something I dare to think of because I could die in an accident today. Maybe after the surgery, when I'm fine, I'll start thinking about it.”
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"When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it," Wiesenthal once said.
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Talk about a real man, not the spineless, gutless fools that Igbo intelligentsia have become. Could you imagine this great man winning and dinning with those that committed the holocaust against the Jews?
TUFIAKWA!!!!
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CBC News
'Conscience of the Holocaust,' Nazi hunter Wiesenthal dies
Last Updated Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:23:37 EDT CBC News
Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down Nazi war criminals following the Second World War, has died. Wiesenthal died in his sleep at his home in Vienna at the age of 96.
Wiesenthal brought 1,100 Nazi fugitives to trial. Among them was Adolf Eichmann, the man entrusted by Adolf Hitler to exterminate the Jews of Europe. "I think he'll be remembered as the conscience of the Holocaust," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles. "In a way, he became the permanent representative of the victims of the Holocaust, determined to bring the perpetrators of the greatest crime to justice."
Wiesenthal was born in 1908 in what is now Ukraine. He had been an architect before the Second World War. A survivor of five Nazi death camps, Wiesenthal dedicated himself to being a voice for the six million Jews who died during the genocide.
He lost 89 relatives in the Holocaust. Wiesenthal was best known for helping to track down Adolf Eichmann, one of the leaders of the SS, the Nazi party's elite paramilitary force. He was found in Argentina and abducted by Israeli agents in 1960. Eichmann was tried for his crimes in Jerusalem and hanged in 1962.
He also located Karl Silberbauer, the Austrian policeman Wiesenthal said to have arrested Anne Frank. Frank was the Dutch teenager who had hid with her family in an Amsterdam house until they were found in August 1944. Frank was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she died. Officials never reacted to Wiesenthal's tip about locating Silberbauer.
"When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it," Wiesenthal once said.
Wiesenthal will be buried in Israel.
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It was Chief Nnamdi Azikiwe of Onitsha, who surfaced in Lagos in the middle of the Nigeria-Biafra War and told the world that there was no genocide going on against Igbo people and Biafrans. Are you and your fellow ekwenche people prepared to eliminate the living traitors in Igboland who are prepared to betray your lawsuit the same way that Zik betrayed Biafra?
Here you are worshipping an Igbo Efulefu named Chris Ngige, perhaps because he gave money to your group. If that is your MO, you will never achieve anything. Unless you are prepared to liquidate those who betray Igbo Biafra, you are wasting your time, especially when you seem to collect from the most corrupt elements in Igboland, such as Ngige.
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“PRONACO also adopted the recommendations of its geo-political structure that the federating units should be at liberty to secede if they were no longer comfortable with the Nigerian system.”
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For Ndi Igbo who still insist that a peaceful separation is a pipe dream, should start to do a rethink. For those that have been deceiving our brethren at home that “Peaceful Actualization of Biafara” is another call for war, should hide their faces in shame. For those who have given up hope, should once more raise their eyes to “Ama Ama Amasi Amasi”, the Mighty Yah, for every knee must bow to Chi Ukwu, the Supreme being!
Igbo Biafara, the promised land founded on ‘Truth – Eziokwu bu Ndu’, flowing with milk and honey, the land that will be founded on Igbo culture, tradition, and philosophy, where the Omenana Ndi Igbo, the ‘Rule of Law’, and OHA are supreme, where there are no sacred cows, is in sight.
Igbo Kweeeenu – YAH! Igbo Kweeeenu – YAH! Biafara Kweeeenu – YAH! Kweeeeeeeeeeeeezuonu – YAH! All Praise and Glory to Chi Ukwu Okike, The Mighty Yah.
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PUNCH Friday, May 05 2006
PRONACO ends conference, adopts reports
Geoffrey Ekenna
The People's National Conference of the Chief Anthony Enahoro-led Pro-National Conference Organisations will formally come to an end on Friday (today).
It is expected to present a report of the conference to the delegates for final adoption before it would be put into a draft constitution.
At the Thursday sitting, which was presided over by Enahoro, the conference adopted the recommendations of its committees set up to articulate the positions of various groups on the Nigerian state.
Some of the key issues adopted at the sitting were the return of Nigeria to a regional structure, the vesting of the control of natural resources in regional governments and the return of the country to a parliamentary system.
The committee on fiscal management recommended that the federating units pay not more than15 per cent of the total revenue to the central government and not more than 35 per cent to be paid into a distributable pool that would be used for inter-regional affairs.
The remaining amount will be shared among the regions, states and local governments.
The committee also noted that there was no region in the country that did not have mineral resources that could sustain it.
PRONACO also adopted the recommendations of its geo-political structure that the federating units should be at liberty to secede if they were no longer comfortable with the Nigerian system.
Chairman of the committee, Sam Onimisi, said the committee arrived at the decision taking into cognisance that the various ethnic groups had been clamouring for self rule. He added that in line with the principles of self-determination, the federating units should have the liberty of continuing in the federation or opting out.
The committee attributed the various ethno-religious crisis in the country to the denial of the right of independence to the ethnic groups.
THE PUNCH, Friday, May 05, 2006
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Too little too late – Head in the sand syndrome!
It is a pity that those who have profited most as Ndi Igbo, no matter their profession, continue to be the last to face reality, what a shame!
How else does one explain the lack of concern about the state of the Igbo nation by these worldwide recognizable Igbo sons and daughters? How else does any explain the lack of interest where Ndi Igbo is concerned by these individuals?
Can a leopard can its spot? Since the answer is obviously no, why would these brethren continue to believe that those that have humiliated, massacred, planned and committed GENOCAUST (genocide and holocaust) against Igbo, would suddenly become friends of Ndi Igbo? What naivety!
We begin to understand why the marginanalization of Igbo has continued since the end of the Biafra-Nigeria war, why the slaughter, inprisonment, abuse and insult of Ndi Igbo contiues. When the IGBO in a position to speak up and defend OHA, refuse to do so, why should the world care? I suppose, Igbo are no longer their brothers’ keepers, TUFIAKWA!!!!
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DAILY SUN Anambra mayhem: Achebe lambasts Obasanjo By GEOFFREY ANYANWU, Awka Thursday, June 1, 2006
Eighteen months after some hired hoodlums held Anambra State hostage for three days, destroying government property, including the Government House, Awka, celebrated author, Prof. Chinua Achebe, has lambasted President Olusegun Obasanjo for feigning ignorance of the activities of the perpetrators of the heinous crime.
Speaking last Sunday in Annandale, New York, United States of America (USA) when he received the former governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chris Ngige, Achebe expressed disappointment at the state of affairs in Nigeria and blamed Obasanjo for pretending not to know about the anti-government activities before, during and after the mayhem in Anambra State.
According to the media consultant to Ngige, Mr. Fred Chukwuelobe, Achebe condemned the November 10-13, 2004 mayhem, declaring that the perpetrators must not go unpunished. "The destruction of public property by rascals must not be allowed to go un-discussed," the great novelist said.
Achebe, now confined to the wheel chair on account of an automobile accident he sustained in Nigeria, noted that those behind the mayhem were so brazen because they were backed by the powers-that-be and added that even at that, they exceeded their bounds by torching the people’s commonwealth and daring them to lift a finger.
The celebrated author lamented developments in the country, and regretted that Obasanjo "prefers to hobnob with leaders abroad while rarely caring for our people." He regretted that he was one of those that supported President Obasanjo’s second coming because he felt the retired Army General had experience having previously been Head of State.
Achebe praised his guest, Dr. Ngige for his performance while in office and said he was not surprised that the former governor was able to give a good account of his stewardship, adding "once you believe in justice, you will apply it to others".
He also extolled him for the statesman-like attitude with which he left the government after the judgement of the Court of Appeal that truncated the leadership of the state and his belief in the rule of law, which made him obey the judgement without instigating the people to resort to violence.
Earlier, Dr. Ngige had told Prof. Achebe that the visit was to accord him the deserved respect as an elder of the State and to thank him as one of the few who spoke up against the burning of government and private property by the hoodlums. He described Prof. Achebe’s position on the political crisis that engulfed the state while he (Dr. Ngige) was in charge and particularly his rejection on account of that, of the national honours of Officer of the Federal Republic (OFR) awarded him by the Federal Government as a clear indication that Anambra State can still boast of quality people who can stand up to be counted when it matters most.
The former governor recalled the ordeals he passed through in his determination to save Anambra State from the grip of "a tiny but powerful parasitic cabal" that held it hostage for years and assured Prof. Achebe that he remained resolute despite the gang up that eventually led to the termination of his government.
The former governor was accompanied on the visit by the leadership of the Anambra-Enugu States Association (AESA), New Jersey branch led by its President, Prince Okey Onyiuke and the Publicity Secretary, Anthony Adubasim. The association later hosted Dr. Ngige in New Ark, New Jersey as part of activities marking its 16th anniversary celebration.
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